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ASEAN Business

The Middle East has capital and needs solutions – that’s a chance for S-E Asia startups

Internally, Oracle has benefited from using AI, with 80 per cent of employees saying that the technology has already proven to work well.
Companies & Markets

Oracle to tap deepening AI adoption in South-east Asia

Milk tea also offers instant gratification; it’s a daily dopamine hit that turns routine consumption into a small, repeatable pleasure.
Tech in AsiaGlobal Enterprise

Chinese milk tea brands are offering a playbook for South-east Asia’s next consumer wave

Timor-Leste is known as the "Land of the Sleeping Crocodile" due to the island's shape.
Opinion & Features
BRUNCH

Timor-Leste: Land of the sleeping crocodile awakens to Asean’s promise

Alleged scam victims cross the river on the Myanmar-Thai border to be repatriated, but despite raids, Myanmar’s fraud factories accused of swindling billions from Chinese and US victims remain thriving.
International

UK, US sanction South-east Asian scam networks exploiting trafficked workers

Amro, in its latest flagship financial stability report, calls for closer monitoring of unlisted micro, small and medium-sized enterprises in raw materials and manufacturing, whom they say may have relatively higher levels of debt-at-risk.
ASEAN Business

Asean+3 financial stability at mercy of US policy swings, tested by greenback’s decline, banking’s digital shift

Founder and chairman of Minor International, William Heinecke (left), kicked off the two-day Asia Future Summit with an opening conversation moderated by ST's senior columnist Ravi Velloor.
International

Hospitality giant Minor not slowing down in Thailand despite instability, remains focused on Asia

Yasuto Watanabe, director of the Asean+3 Macroeconomic Research Office and Japan’s former senior deputy vice-minister of finance, highlights growing private-sector adoption of local currencies in bilateral trade.
ASEAN Business

Asean+3 macro research office wants to be ‘gym trainer’, not doctor, for region’s economies

FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: A general view of the city skyline of Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia, August 5, 2021. REUTERS/Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana/ File Photo/File Photo
Global Enterprise
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Indonesia’s healthcare moment is now

An employee checks readings at a laboratory in a pharmaceutical manufacturing factory in Singapore. Additional US tariffs on pharmaceuticals and semiconductors would mostly affect South-east Asia, said ADB, with the former primarily hitting Singapore.
ASEAN Business

ADB slashes 2026 growth outlook for Thailand, Singapore by nearly half

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